I am gradually transitioning to OpenBSD, but I use pandoc to convert between text file formats on MacOS, Linux, and Windows. However, pandoc hasn’t been ported to OpenBSD. What tools or workflows will accomplish similar tasks on OpenBSD? The workflow I use most often is batch processing Markdown files with very basic YAML metadata to HTML5. lowdown looks promising, except that it won’t (I think) work in CMDER on Windows 7 (my work environment).

So you installed haskell-platform using pkg_add and then installed pandoc via cabal without having to build from source? Do you have any specific recommendations, or does this guide match what you did?

lowdown author here. I use lowdown on Mac OS (has a homebrew) and Linux, and of course on OpenBSD. I don’t know how to distribute on Windows. (The source uses a very straightforward Makefile and C without dependencies, if that helps?)

The next release (currently on the GitHub, but not stabilised for release) features almost-totally-completely re-written internals to support nicer PDF output.